The most depressing movies you've seen

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27 May 2008, 11:48 pm

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A.I. was completely depressing and a turn off because of that. I dont really like movies that keep you constantly depressed throughout.

That's odd. I thought it was based on the "Positronic Man" which I didn't find particularly depressing...

Really? I've never seen that one. What I didnt like about A.I was the hopelessness of it all. Did you see the ending? To me it's like the writers sat down and decided to put in the most grim ending ever, and then puked it out on screen. I understand that since the kid was a robot, he wouldnt die. But then for him to be stuck in the ship in the ocean for eternity, and for them to play that eternity on screen made me feel like they wanted us all to go home and kill oursleves because we cant stand the bleakness of it all any longer. My apologies if you havent seen it.

That is precisely why I LOVE "A.I." It's just so sad, so dark...it's like watching a train wreak.

I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but what about "American History X"?

Yeah, the ending was sad. How's that for a "D'OH!" moment? The ending just left the question in the air of whether what Derek did was right or not for some people. For me it makes me wish everyone was a nerd so one would feel the need to seek out pointless revenge.

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28 May 2008, 2:39 pm

Moulin Rouge

'The Mist'...good GOD....

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10 Aug 2008, 11:03 am

The Hours.
Magnolia.
Amélie.
Serendipity.
Brokeback Mountain.
Wall-E.

Beautifully depressing. Especially Magnolia.

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10 Aug 2008, 4:39 pm

Did anyone mention "the mist" yet? It says a lot about human nature.

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10 Aug 2008, 5:04 pm

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Most depressing movie ever: Transformers the Movie
Nothing could compare to the insurmountable load of douche and childhood-raping that this movie entails. ><

Which Transformers movie? the new one that came out last year or the animated one.

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10 Aug 2008, 5:04 pm

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Did anyone mention "the mist" yet? It says a lot about human nature.

Really harsh ending as well.

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10 Aug 2008, 5:25 pm

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10 Aug 2008, 7:40 pm

Let's see... a couple of the ones I would've picked have been already mentioned, but here goes anyways.

Pan's Labyrinth: Yeah, the ending was very sad. But you want to know what really got me? Torturing the freaking stuttering guy. That was just going overboard. That scene was just painful to watch.

The Proposition: Again, another movie where the ending was really depressing, but by the time I got to that point, the events had left me so depressed I didn't care anymore. The mistreatment and then on-screen whipping to death of a mentally fragile teenage boy was just heartbreaking, despite the things he had been accused of doing prior to the movie's beginning.

Willard: I was reminded of this one by an above poster, but come to think of it, it really is one of the most depressing movies I've seen. Poor guy. D: However, while my sympathies were mostly directed towards him, what really did it was when his favorite rat Socrates died.

The End of Evangelion: Just.... poor Shinji. After having been the buttmonkey of the entire series, he's extremely depressed, almost killed, massively mindscrewed, and then left with, of all people, ASUKA, after the world's been destroyed? Again, poor guy.

Edward Scissorhands: One of the nicest characters, if not the nicest in the movie, is punished for things he doesn't realize are wrong, for doing what he sees as helping people he loves, by the very people who were friends with him when it was convenient for them, so much that he's driven away from his only chance at happiness. If that's not depressing, what is?

Come to think of it, any movie with an already awkward, out of place, put-upon individual getting stomped on until they die or just are left broken counts in my book.

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11 Aug 2008, 12:41 am

I can't believe noone has posted

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11 Aug 2008, 12:15 pm

Some might find the ending of Rocket Science depressing.
Personally, I love it.
It's an amazing movie, but a lot of people despise it because it doesn't have a happy ending...at all.

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13 Aug 2008, 5:12 pm

Schindler's List. the king of depressing movies.

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13 Aug 2008, 7:33 pm

Hands down, the most depressing movie I ever saw was Angela's Ashes. It hit on every single downer in the book & had none of the humor or lighter moments.

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14 Aug 2008, 1:53 pm

Cast Away, it was quite sad and depressing.

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16 Aug 2008, 2:48 am

Oh let's see:

Children of Men

Hotel Rwanda (I've never cried during a movie, but I'll be damned did I ever come close with this one)

Eternal Sunshine

Leon: The Professional (the end, at least)

Pan's Labyrinth

The Thing (John Carpenter's remake)

Adaptation

Donnie Darko

Schindler's List

American History X

Crash

Dark City

Empire of the Sun

The Weather Man (this is a really black comedy, hadn't seen it for a few years until it aired on TBS the other night).

Star Wars Episode III (this should have been a great movie, and while the graphics were awesome, the dialog and acting were just terrible).

I should be able to add Grave of the Fireflies to this unnecessarily long list, since I've had my sister's copy for 3 years, but I just can't bring myself to watch it in the state I've been in for the past year.

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16 Aug 2008, 3:34 am

wow there are a lot of movies here that i don't think are depressing at all!

like fight club? not depressing at all that i can figure.

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What Dreams May Come

I mean, seriously . . . the mother commits suicide and he has to go to hell to find her.

! !! yeah but he loves her so much he's willing to give up everything for her, which is the opposite of depressing... he loves her enough to join her in hell. i suppose it could be depressing if i look at my own life and think, wow no one will ever love me that much and i will never love someone else that much... but with that reasoning, all romantic comedies would be depressing too.

i say the most depressing movie ever that i have actually watched all the way through is Leaving Las Vegas.

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17 Aug 2008, 12:04 pm

Life is beautiful. Very depressing. But very moving, and some parts of it were strangely uplifting.

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